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Scandal-Ridden Trump Loyalist Confirmed as Ambassador

Daily Beast reporting found that the ex-NFL star had multiple children with women outside of his marriage.

Scandal-ridden Donald Trump loyalist Herschel Walker has been confirmed by the Senate as a U.S. ambassador. The ex-NFL star, 63, will serve as the envoy to the Bahamas, filling a post that had been vacant since 2011, according to The Washington Post. A longtime ally of Trump, Walker’s 2022 Georgia Senate campaign collapsed under a cascade of lurid allegations. His ex-wife accused him of threatening her with a gun, two former partners said he pressured them to have abortions despite his anti-abortion stance, and The Daily Beast discovered he had a number of undisclosed children by women he is not married to. Trump announced in December 2024 that he would nominate Walker to the diplomatic post, and the former Dallas Cowboys running back was confirmed on Tuesday in a 51–47 vote, part of a batch of nominees advanced under a GOP rules change enabling simple-majority group confirmations. Republicans approved more than 100 nominees en bloc after scrapping the 60-vote threshold for grouped confirmations in September, according to the Post.